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The Sacramento City Council met on October 27, 2026, at 5:03 PM in City Hall. The meeting included special presentations, a consent calendar, public hearings on housing and street closure, a storm drainage fund review, and extensive public comment. Councilmembers absent: Mayor McCarty and Councilmember Maple. Councilmember Jennings abstained on item 5.
On Consent Calendar Items:
On Matters Not on the Agenda:
Item 13 – Q Street Apartments (TEFRA Hearing) Staff proposed a $2 million Housing Trust Fund loan and up to $38 million in tax-exempt bonds for a 198-unit modular affordable housing project at 6779 Q Street. The 12-story building will serve households earning 30-70% of area median income. Parking is limited to 38 spaces. Councilmember Dickinson questioned parking adequacy and urged providing transit passes. Developer Heidi Mather (Community HousingWorks) said marketing will highlight limited parking, and they are considering transit passes. Christine Weichert (SHRA) confirmed they will work on a parking lottery and transit pass program. The public hearing was closed, and the item was approved with no votes in opposition and two abstentions (McCarty and Maple absent).
Item 14 – Temporary Closure of 21st Avenue Staff requested approval to install an electric gate to restrict public access to a dead-end street near Power Inn Road to reduce illegal dumping, vandalism, and encampments. The closure is for 18 months with an option to extend. No public objections were received. The item was approved unanimously.
Item 15 – CalPERS Contract Amendment The item was continued to November 10, 2026.
Item 16 – Storm Drainage Funds Review City Auditor Farishta Ahrary presented an independent fiscal stability assessment by Rough Talas/West Yost. Key findings:
The meeting adjourned at 6:50 PM.
I'd like to call this meeting. I'd like to call this meeting in order at 5.03 p.m. Clerk, please call the roll. Thank you, Councilmember Kaplan. We expect Councilmember Dickinson momentarily. Councilmember Dickinson. Just arriving. Arrived. Thank you. Um, Councilmember Pleckibaum. Councilmember Maple will be absent. Mayor Protem Guerra. Here. Councilmember Jennings. Councilmember Vang. Mayor McCarty will be absent. Vicemar Talamantes. You have a quorum. Wonderful. Uh Council Mayor Pro Tem Guerra. Please lead us in the land acknowledgement. You have it out. Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's indigenous people and tribal lands. To the original people to the original people of this land, the Nissanon people, the Southern Maidu, the Valley and Plains Miwok, the Putwin Winton people, and the people of the Wilton Rancheria, Sacramento's only federal and federally recognized tribe. May we acknowledge and honor the Native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to uh to gather together today in the act of practice of acknowledgement and appreciation of Sacramento's Indigenous Peoples' history, contribution, and lives. Join me in the Pledge of Allegiance, salute pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And we had no closed session today, so no city attorney report out. And we have two special presentations. The first one led by Councilmember Kaplan on Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Um, I want to thank who are in the audience, and I'll call them up in a minute. Doug Carson, who is the founder of I'll be aware breast cancer foundation, and Melissa Manzo, who is the director of programs and operations. Uh October uh is uh is a month that we uh give education, awareness, and remembrance to those who've had breast cancer, fought breast cancer, and unfortunately those who have lost their lives to breast cancer one day. I hope that we never have to celebrate this in October again because we have found the cure, and uh nobody has to worry about what impact breast cancer has on your family. I have said it before. Um I lost my aunt to breast cancer when my cousins were in their teens. They lost their mother. Um I have seen it in my cousins and the impact of when you lose your mom who fought for five years and the impact that that this has because one in eight women and one in 755 men will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. So it is unlikely that you will go through life and not know somebody that this has um impacted. And so that's why I really appreciate Doug Carson and Albi Aware, who was founded in two that was founded in 2004 when his wife Alberta Alby was uh uh diagnosed with breast cancer because it is so important that while we have better medication, what we need is is women and men to know that they need to get tested. If you don't get tested, you don't know you have it, and the earlier we catch it, the more likely you will make a full recovery. Um thank you, Doug, for turning your personal loss into a mission. That's what really makes the difference. Um, and as we come to a close this October, um, it's not only this month, but we know that breast cancer education and awareness needs to happen every year.